Quotes About Motivation

Raise your sights, sugar. Aim low all you'll hit is rats, snakes and rock bottom from Epitaph

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

Maybe it fostered in me a creeping ambition-deficit disorder, but it could ease an ache. So anything worth doing could be undertaken later. Paint the apartment, write a book, quit booze, sure: tomorrow. Which

No man but a blockhead ever wrote for any cause but money," Samuel Johnson said.)

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Mary Kay Andrews

Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.

Inspiration is nice, but not until we take action do we move into transformation.

Be ignited, or be gone.

Quickly, then, get up, put on your coat, leave your desk!

We must do what we do to satisfy our own hearts... (p. 87)

The early anatomists were dealing with a chronic shortage of bodies for dissection, and consequently were motivated to come up with ways to preserve the ones they managed to obtain. Blanchard's textbook was the first to cover arterial embalming. He describes opening up an artery, flushing the blood out with water, and pumping in alcohol. I've been to frat parties like that.

You don't need proof. You just need an inclination

Do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose. My life might have passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks

I have no patience with people who grow old at sixty... Sixty should be the time to start something new, not put your feet up.

I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.

fills me with cheerful auguries. Even the sailors feel the power of his eloquence: when he speaks, they no longer despair; he rouses their energies, and, while they hear his voice, they believe these vast mountains of ice are molehills, which will vanish before the resolutions of man.

I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear...

Someone with inborn talent isn't happy. It's those who have worked hard for someone precious to them and who can be hot-blooded that are happy. -Gai Sensei: Naruto Episode 196

For those who don't believe in themselves, hardwork is worthless

All she wanted was for me to have a dream, a direction, to stop drifting. She wasn't the only one. I wanted me to stop drifting—still do.

They strengthened my determination to become a tougher racer, and my belief that I could.